Magical backdoor only for "the good guys" is a complete fantasy 🔑✨

Let's say the strategy is akin to creating a MagicalKey that unlocks every door (a magical key because thinking encryption backdoors would only be used by "the good guys" is a great example of magical thinking).

Imagine only 1000 police officers have MagicalKeys.

Overtime, let's say only 1% of the police officers accidentally lose their MagicalKey. Now 10 MagicalKeys are lost in the wild and could be used by anyone else, for any purposes, including crime.

Then, let's say only 0.1% of police officers get corrupted by a crime gang. That's just one right? This corrupted "good guy" lets the gang create a double of the MagicalKey. Which crime gang wouldn't want a key that can magically open any door?

Now, the gang creates doubles of the MagicalKey they have. They use it subtly at first to avoid detection. They make sure they never leave traces behind, so victims have no idea their door got unlocked.

During this time, they steal your data, they sell it, they use it to impersonate you, they use it to harm you and your loved ones.

Then, another criminal figures out on their own how to emulate a MagicalKey without even having access to one.

The criminal creates a reproducible mold for this Emulated-MagicalKey and sells it to other criminals on the criminal market. Now, the MagicalKey™️ is available to any criminals looking for it.

Restrictions on the backdoor are off. Your personal data is up for grabs.

This is what is going to happen if backdoors are implemented in end-to-end encryption. But don't worry they say, "it's only for the good guys!".

At least, the criminals' data will also be up for grabs, right?

Nope! The criminals knew about this, so they just started using different channels that weren't impacted.

Criminals will have their privacy intact, they don't care about using illegal tools, but your legal privacy protections will be gone.

Backdoored end-to-end encryption isn't end-to-end anymore, it's just open-ended encryption. This offers pretty much no protection at all.

Extract from: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/

#Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #RootForE2EE

I used to think packaged pre-cut veg at the supermarket was for lazy people.

Then a disabled person pointed out it was a lifeline for them because they lived alone and couldn’t cut it up themselves most days.

I had never even considered that. It changed my perspective and I think from then on when something seems “lazy” I always ask myself “is this just accessible?”
And it’s nearly always the latter.

It’s not hard to listen to someone when they say something is not accessible and it’s not difficult to shift your perspective.
I don’t know why so many people won’t.

When I left Twitter for Mastodon, so many people told me I was making a mistake and Mastodon was dead.

It was a difficult decision to switch because I had been on Twitter for 13 years, and I had accumulated over 16,000 followers.

But here we are, two and a half years later, and I am now followed by 17,000 here on Mastodon.

It is such an important milestone for me, because it proves that while the majority will often chose continuity over change, change often wins.

The future is federated!
♥️🐘

Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#cybersecurity

In step with 'Project 2025', which seeks to undermine and erase climate science, Trump is trying to shut down the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. He is doing this as part of an aggressive defunding of NOAA.

Data collected by this observatory since 1958 has been central to nearly every report ever published on our changing climate.

Our home planet may soon lose a canonical reference that it is warming.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/01/climate/trump-cuts-mauna-loa-keeling

(Edit: grammar fix)

#climate #misinformation